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her wrist for barely two seconds, but it felt like he'd branded her soul. Her pulse throbbed

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losing too fast. Let's run a tox screen and scan for internal tr

the punctures are healing. That

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reath burned as it entered her lungs. She pressed her hand fl

nymore. She was a d

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could feel the aura rolling off of him; power

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board. "Dr. Lane. The tox screen came back cl

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snapped up.

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trauma. But in a strange way, it fit. She hadn'

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corridor. Her pale brown eyes looked hollow under the flickering li

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ask for permis

in her fear, even in her fury,

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knew wha

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